Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the World Health Organisation defines term as 37–42 completed weeks of pregnancy ( 259–294 days ) , most pregnant woman and many midwives think of term as the expected date of delivery . |
| 2 | In 1977 the Skyfame Aircraft Museum closed its doors to the public for the last time and virtually all the aircraft in the collection were transferred to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in one of the most momentous rescue and re-site operations ever undertaken . |
| 3 | However , it is artistically total tosh and merely a vehicle for an imagination nowhere close to reaching puberty . |
| 4 | Whether you 're looking for a fragrant floribunda , the most patio-friendly variety or simply your favourite hue , our information will point you in the right direction . |
| 5 | However , if you left a child under 12 ( England and Wales ) or under seven ( Scotland ) in your home with an unguarded or inadequately guarded fire and they were injured as a result , you would be legally responsible . |
| 6 | Your publication has given some of the world 's best humorists and cartooonists their most memorable exposure and has inspired countless others to pick up the pen and make complete fools out of themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 8 | Additions equally probable anywhere This is both the most usual case and the assumption the designer should work on if no information is available . |
| 9 | I 'm ve I this is the first time it 's happened this way round that anybody 's got That 's the most subtle clue and somebody 's spotted it . |
| 10 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 11 | With the exception of the private houses , and the public and official structures already described , such temples were often the most romanized element and were therefore visually as well as functionally important . |
| 12 | Some women argue that female genital mutilation is good because it suppresses sexuality , thereby preserving chastity and preventing promiscuity . |
| 13 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 14 | It is the most liquid asset but it earns no interest , instead handling and storage costs are incurred . |
| 15 | But Irenius provides sufficient example to bring Eudoxus to proclaim : ‘ In truth , this which you tell is a most shameful hearing and to be reformed with most sharp censures in so great personages to the terror of the meaner ’ . |
| 16 | They provide all the classic tones , from full and ripe through soft and pingy to pure and sharp , all with remarkably low noise and completely even volume levels from position to position , with the Manson 's maple top , generous neck and heavy machineheads adding a great sense of solidity and authority to the sound . |
| 17 | On a trip to Idaho , the spud falls in love with the state 's most alluring potato and , by writing clever mash notes , wins her heart . |
| 18 | It knows that , whatever the Government say , eventually European law or the law of a more enlightened British Government will say , ’ You just can not do it . ’ |
| 19 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 20 | This situation is the result of a chronic constitutional impasse in which the government and the parliament have been unable to develop a stable and effective working relationship , because of ‘ an unreformed public administration , a loosely worded constitution and an unbalanced party political development ’ . |
| 21 | Suddenly I shook myself awake , realising it was no dream ; smoke was drifting under my door and , in spite of the thickness of the walls , I could hear the most awful groaning and crashing . |
| 22 | Positive findings were decreased air entry in the right lower chest and a distended abdomen with tenderness and guarding , mainly in the suprapubic region . |
| 23 | In this most strange place and in this short moment Nicholas lost his heart and knew for certain that at last , at very last , without doubt or question , he had fallen in love . |
| 24 | It was they who maintained a skeletal union organization through the years of repression and recession even when membership promised little short-term benefit and involved considerable risk of discrimination by employers . |
| 25 | The filming , which resulted in an eight-minute segment took three days from 8am to 7pm each day and standing in fire gear in the freezing , draughty shell of a building is not Hollywood . |
| 26 | Nutty had manoeuvred through the rather narrow gate and was trying to keep Midnight from eating a lavender bush by the front door , and his feet out of a rosebed . |
| 27 | They are also incorporated into internal filters and external filters ; and provide the water moving power for the most advanced trickle or wet and dry filters ( which are usually gravity-fed , the pump being in the last section to return the water . ) |
| 28 | Relations between a still predominantly oral culture and this important and growing sector ‘ within' it are then especially complex , and the point is soon reached when there is a qualitative difference between the oral area , which all share but to which most are confined , and the literate area , which is of increasing cultural importance but is at once minor and dominant . |
| 29 | The panama hat , in the finest woven straw , is the most classic version and a worthwhile investment . |
| 30 | On March 1 , three weeks before the troop withdrawal , the North-Eastern Provincial Council ( the Indian-backed legislature for the predominantly Tamil north and east region ) passed a resolution declaring the area to be an independent state of Eelam . |